Lets start with money matters. Who will pay the pensions of retirees who paid into the Ukrainian system?

Voters are being told that Russia will assume the obligations for all pensions, with a big leap in benefits. For example, the average monthly pension in Russia is said to be about $270, almost double the $150 paid in the average Ukrainians monthly pension. And the retirement age will drop by five years, to 60 for men and 55 for women.

And what about schools?

Schoolchildren are expected to get new history books with a more outsize section on Russian history and its version of events, such as World War II, which Russians and Crimeans refer to as the Great Patriotic War. Officials say that for the next year, at least, Crimeans will be allowed to enroll at Russian universities without taking an entrance exam. Next year, they will have to take the regular Russian enrollment exam.

Will people working in government offices, schools and hospitals lose their jobs?

Authorities have vowed that nobody who is doing satisfactory work will be fired, and most will get raises.

Are you this delusional to think Putin a Soviet KBB agent had an actual vote?
These people have tanks and men wearing black masks in thecstreets all around them !
The outside media was barred from the voting areas!

The Russians killed or imprisioned millions of Ukraines , turks, greeks in the last century in this region.

Not sure the people have a choice...sure they are letting people vote but really the election is corrupt and with Russian troops right there who could really stand up and say anything against what is happening?

All the promises sound familiar though...how people will all be so much better off...we keep being told the same thing...

This article paints a rosy picture for the 58% ethnic Russians. Sucks if you aren’t. The per cent Russian also gives a measure of the fairness in the vote. But that was never the point was it. FWIW the other Ukrainian provinces don’t go above 39% ethnic Russian. 17.8% Russian overall with the western provinces having 2% to 4%.

Russia’s elite have been in Crimea since 1774, first in battle than as annexation by Catherine the Great in 1783. There are approximately 7 palaces of the Czars in Crimea. Come now how much different will Crimea be. Currently the Ukraine is financially broke> It is a no brainer for the Russkies in Crimea to go the way of Russia. ( I do not believe they will benefit Russia is financial strapped itself).

Who is voting besides the ethnic Russians? It is a majority Russian Province with 42% others - a significant number. Who is doing the counting? The deal stunk for non Russians. But then, I suppose that is the point.

We’ll see which Provence is next. The greatest Russian ethnic population outside Crimea is just under 40%. Yet, the Russians are giving every appearance of going into Donetsk to rescue their fellow Russians.

Assuming, of course, Putin doesn’t start a war with Ukraine or Crimean Tatars, because you know what a magnet to tourism and trade a war zone is.

Also, Putin invested billions into Sochi, so he needs the people to go there, not Crimea. Three quarters of tourists were coming from Ukraine. There was nothing stopping Russians from coming, instead they went to Greece, Turkey, Cyprus etc.

California is how many percent Mexican now? These scum MFers that intentionally changed the face of America to purposely divide us with their open borders, the 1965 Immig Act, gun control for average Americans, and all intentionally to keep us divided while they all get richer, may need held to account too for their anti-USA positions.

If you look at a listing of the countries that the Russians see as enemies, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland are right at the top. Putin remains popular if he “protects” ethnic Russians. We are pretty high on the hate list as well which explains the “turn to ash” rhetoric of the Russian press. Cold War II has already started but we don’t understand.

I would think that the economy in fiscally-tight EU-member Estonia is better than in basket-case Ukraine. So there should be less (non-emotional) reason for local Russians to want to break off to Mother Russia.

Plus I think the Estonian government would fight - with bullets (even with the full knowledge that their NATO membership is of dubious worth with Barky Hussein in the White House) .

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posted on 03/16/2014 8:17:18 PM PDT
by Dagnabitt
(Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)

Totalitarian states survive through expansionism. The Soviet Union, with its bankrupt economic model, had to retain Eastern Europe after World War II to survive. Any portable assets in these countries from gold and currency to raw materials to art and antiquities to industrial plants were sent east to Moscow. Whole factories were disassembled and shipped back to the USSR then reassembled. Stalin emulated the Czars as does Putin. When military conquest becomes risky many forms of subversion can be applied to any small country bordering Russia.

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posted on 03/16/2014 8:39:22 PM PDT
by Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)

Russians in Crimea have long gone to Russia to work because of the vast wage differences.

The one thing I’ve read over and over again is Crimea wasn’t exactly treated well by the Ukranian Gov., no matter who was in office. So the Russians were more than happy to vote for Russian standards...

Gas 60% less in itself would be substantial savings to a family. And the military differences are astounding.

However, if the Ukrain’s can get their act together...years down the road, they MAY be in a better place themselves...but I tend to doubt it. All this money flowing from IMF, World Bank and the US etc. are LOANS. to Ukraines already bankrupt country. Unless business and industy go there few will do better as I see it ...even in the long run.

Most nations in that area under EU are not doing well at all after joining Nato etc....certainly not in the ways the people were led to believe would be.

As usual politicans and the Globalists talk big...follow through is another matter altogether.

I’ve run into these guys as well on threads....when any ‘understand’ the situation in Ukraine and the steps Putin takes, right or wrong, they always call people Commies or Putin Boot Lickers and the like when they post anything other than what comes from MSM... God forbid if it comes from any other than that which supports their position.

It’s no secret the USA has focused on Putin bashing....everybody knows this. They do so because it shields them from what they’re doing and keeps people distracted from Obama’s agenda.

However, I do think those posting concerning the ‘details’ of Putins moves, with an understanding of how and why he works as he does,how he has in the past, and relates this to the moves he’s making now..... are worth the read.

It pays to have a broad understanding of both sides....if you can ignore the violence and thugs pulling things off in Ukraine, and all sides are using them....and instead look at the whole picture...you’re always better off..

Understanding Putins moves is not the same thing as supporting him...they don’t get that.

Cheaper gas, better wages, better pensions, a flat tax on income...there's going to be a sharp contrast to the standard of living in Crimea opposed to Ukraine proper going forward. Not to mention the warmer weather and a more stable civil society.

‘Cheaper gas, better wages, better pensions, a flat tax on income...there’s going to be a sharp contrast to the standard of living in Crimea opposed to Ukraine proper going forward. Not to mention the warmer weather and a more stable civil society.”’

Putin will probably let the Ukraine continued to get Greeced by $oreA$$es EU Thugs. After another 5 years, they will probably be wanting to leave the EU and the Greecing.

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posted on 03/17/2014 10:18:50 AM PDT
by Grampa Dave
( Too bad Obama does not take OUR borders as seriously as he does the Ukraine!)

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